Up to three thousand of the most disturbed children are being failed by the
state which has placed sex attackers with abuse victims and sent others
hundreds of miles from home, according to a report published today.

One 16 year old had been moved 31 times, and another youngster twenty times
over a period of three years, the joint report by two Government watchdogs
said.

Liz Calderbank, the Chief Inspector of Probation, said that the children were
“forgotten” by the state which was supposed to be caring for them at an
estimated cost of £160,000 a year.